Interview

Arts Interview: The Late E.L. Doctorow — Reduced to Art

July 24, 2015
Posted in , ,

“When people ask how I became interested in history, I answer it was through an interest in popular culture and disreputable genres.”

Read More

Music Interview: John Berberian Brings his Oud Artistry to the Lowell Folk Festival

July 21, 2015
Posted in , , ,

John Berberian, an Armenian-American master of the oud, is in our midst.

Read More

Visual Arts Interview: Robert Motherwell at 100 — A Look Back at the “Despair of the Aesthetic”

July 10, 2015
Posted in , ,

An artist who readily quoted Kierkegaard? Actually, Robert Motherwell always resisted his media image, the ex-Ivy League graduate student who is a philosopher-intellectual before he is an artist.

Read More

Music Interview: Inside Veteran Folk Singer Tom Paxton

June 9, 2015
Posted in , , ,

“My idol was Pete Seeger, even before I moved to the Village. He still is.”

Read More

Film Interview: No Jumping to Conclusions in ‘Sunshine Superman” — Talking to Director Marah Strauch

May 29, 2015
Posted in , ,

Marah Strauch’s documentary tries to fathom Carl Boenish’s motive for taking his last leap.

Read More

Book Interview: When Did America Become a Christian Nation?

May 27, 2015
Posted in , ,

“Yes, America might have been a nation of Christians, but that was different from being formally a Christian nation.”

Read More

Film Interview: Gerald Peary Searches For “Archie’s Betty”

May 24, 2015
Posted in , , ,

Making Archie’s Betty compelled Gerald Peary to confront his inner Archie: “The more I made this movie, the more personal it got.

Read More

Film Interview: Talking to Director Lucia Small about “One Cut/ One Life”

May 14, 2015
Posted in , , ,

The collaboration with the mortally ill Ed Pincus, Lucia Small explains, came about from a mutual desire to experiment with documentary form.

Read More

Film Interview: Rory Kennedy defends “Last Days in Vietnam”

May 7, 2015
Posted in , ,

Not everybody loves the documentary Last Days in Vietnam. Director Rory Kennedy responds to some of the criticism.

Read More

Book Interview: Todd Tietchen on Jack Kerouac — Torn Between Routes and Roots.

April 20, 2015
Posted in , ,

The hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.

Read More

Recent Posts